A guide to surviving in the world of beasts

Su Ling put away the remaining medicine and gently put clothes on Hu Yi. "Will there be another beast wave before the end of the cold season?"

Pulling Su Ling to sit beside him, Hu Yi spoke, "There should be more, but the size of the beast tide should be about the same as today's, so it's not difficult to deal with. The cold season will end in about a month, and by then, the beast tide will naturally retreat back to the Giant Tree Forest."

Three days later, the tribe encountered another small beast tide, but after the last beast tide, everyone had gained experience and cooperated better than last time.

Although the number of beasts attacking this time was greater than the last time, through tacit cooperation, it took about the same amount of time to resolve this tide of beasts, and fewer people were exhausted.

After eliminating five more small waves of beasts, the cold season is coming to an end. The snow on the ground shows signs of melting. It has been about ten days since the last wave of beasts was dealt with. It seems that there will be no more beast waves this cold season.

Looking at the snow beginning to melt, Hu Yi ordered everyone to move the carcasses of wild animals outside the tribe into the tribe.

Knowing that the beast tide was over and the cold season was about to end, everyone had a smile on their face, and the little cubs ran into the snow, running and laughing. The tribe was filled with their happy laughter, and their cheerful laughter infected everyone in the tribe.

The adults just called them a few times symbolically and then left them alone. They all smiled with satisfaction as they saw the cubs grow taller and stronger in this cold season.

There has never been a winter season as relaxing and comfortable as this one. Although there were still some dangers, we all got through it smoothly and welcomed a healthy cub.

In the future, the tribe will welcome more cubs, because several females are already pregnant with cubs this winter. They all feel that the tribe is different from before, and will develop better in the future.

Living in such a tribe, future cold seasons will no longer be so terrible. As long as every subsequent cold season can be like this one, they will have nothing to desire.

After several days of processing, the spectacular-looking pile of animal corpses was finally dealt with.

These beasts didn't have much meat to begin with, and after peeling off their skins, only a pile of bones were left. Because of the melee and the fighting, there weren't many intact skins left.

After peeling them off and counting them, there were only 232 intact skins without much damage, which was much less than the number in the beast tide.

However, being able to eliminate the beast tide without any casualties and harvest the animal skins was something that had never been imagined before, so everyone felt relieved.

Because the wolf tribe had a secret method to make animal skins retain their fragrance for a long time, Hu Yi gave the animal skins to Lang Jin and asked him to bring others to prepare them together.

Although the remaining carcasses of wild animals were very thin, a starved camel was larger than a horse. Su Ling and his tribesmen made the meat into jerky or smoked meat.

Next we have to reclaim wasteland for spring planting. These meats will just serve as food during this period. In fact, the most important thing is that the beast tide has just receded and there is no prey to hunt.

After cutting off all the meat, Hu Yi led his men to carry the inedible skeletons out of the tribe and threw them into Luoxing Gorge. Naturally, wild beasts would come to eat these meatless bones. For the hungry beasts, these were also food that could satisfy their full meal.

When all things are dealt with, the cold season is declared over. After the snow melts, the ground is filled with water. When you step on the ground, it is muddy and you will step on mud as soon as you go out.

At this time, Su Ling missed the cement road of Blue Star very much. The cave where she lived was also very humid. Water droplets were seeping out of the stone walls. The animal skins placed in the cave were also damp. If the sun didn't come out, the animal skins would definitely get moldy if this continued.

Su Ling was completely annoyed by this. She knew that the cave was very humid, but she didn't know it would be so humid. She decided again to wait until after the spring planting and then build a house. She never wanted to live in a cave like this again.

Hu Yi looked at Su Ling's depressed expression and rubbed her hair comfortingly. "Just bear with it for a while. When I finish the things at hand, I will bring the tribesmen to build the house you mentioned before."

Su Ling nodded. This was the only way. "Okay, don't rush it. Just finish it before the next winter season. A cave like this is really not very suitable for living. There are so many orcs. They will have bone pain when they get old. Living in such a damp cave for a long time will make people sick."

A few days passed, and before the animal skins became moldy, the sun finally came out, and everyone in the tribe moved all their animal skins to an open area to dry them in the sun.

Su Ling and the other person also joined the army of people who were drying quilts, oh no, rather, drying animal skins.

With the arrival of the warm season, all things come back to life, the grass on the ground breaks through the soil, and the tribe begins to get busy.

Su Ling commanded the tribesmen to reclaim wasteland near the tribe. Although they did not have iron tools to make farm tools, they harvested a lot of wild animal bones during the beast tides in the cold season.

Among them is the bone of a stone beast, which is very hard and suitable for temporarily replacing iron tools. Although there are not many of them and they are not easy to polish, they are still better than stone tools.

We can only wait and see when we can find iron ore and then make changes. Now we can only use bone tools to open up the land.

The first step in clearing land and growing vegetables is to choose suitable land. High-quality land is essential for the growth of crops, so you should choose land with deep soil, good drainage and plenty of sunlight.

The land that Su Ling chose to reclaim was near a big river. Apart from other things, it was very convenient for irrigation. Of course, convenient irrigation alone was not enough. The reason for choosing that place was that the plants there grew lushly.

The land reclaimed here, close to the river, is mainly used as rice fields for growing rice.

Then clear the weeds on the fenced land and burn them together.

They started turning the soil. The females used bone tools to turn the soil, while the males transformed into animal forms. It took about ten days, and all the circled soil was turned over. The first land that was reclaimed had been left to dry for several days.

In the absence of other fertilizers, they could only use the wild animal dung that had been stored as manure and spread a layer of it on the reclaimed land. After spreading it, they turned the land over to allow the manure to blend into the land and make it more fertile.

After spreading the ash from burning weeds on the land, the land reclamation was finally completed.

Su Ling was already exhausted and collapsed on the bed, not wanting to move at all. Hu Yi massaged her hands and feet to relax her sore muscles.

"It's so tiring to open up the land! Then we have to plant the plants, which is too exhausting. I finally understand the hard work of the farmers." Su Ling hummed while lying on the bed.